Hey Everyone,
So my daughter, Ruby, gifted me some variant album covers she designed as a birthday gift all inspired by our pet rabbit, Juno. LOL! I love these! I think we need to get the rabbit in the studio to record something at one point. Juno is a rescue from the SPCA, but we've been told she is an angora-double ma...
2023-12-06 17:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone!
So there was an issue with the live function with crowdcast at the start of the stream. BUT since our friend Julie (DJ Killa Jewel) travelled through a snow storm to be at the studio, we decided to record a session anyway. And post it now (2:30am). You can replay it at the link above.
It's...
2023-12-05 07:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
So I picked up a little video camera to document some of the Deltron tour. It was great to be back on stage with the 3030 crew again. Here's some security-cam style video of the song Things U Can Do from the Seattle Show at the Crocodile. Dan the Automator on beats, Del the Funkee Homosapien...
2023-12-03 20:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
The production on the film is full steam ahead! Here's a little sneak peek at a WIP clip for an action sequence from Space Cadet. Kara Lawrence and I are working on the layout for this shot which entails choosing the camera lens, frame and establishing any camera moves. I am also doing some ...
2023-12-01 22:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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Wanted to share some sneak peek WIP pics of the Space Cadet film. Above is a reference of a page of the spaceship interior. You can see the control console, and layout of the ship. This is a page from my original graphic novel. The team are working on some "Look Development" for the f...
2023-11-24 14:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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If you need some quiet time, focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 169. Streaming live from the studio 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
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Hey Everyone!
It's happening! The Storyville Mosquito will be heading to Lincoln Center in the spring! In order to make the arts more accessible, Lincoln Center are offering the tickets on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis. I think that's wonderful! So please tell your friends and family in the NYC area who you think...
2023-11-18 01:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
We are a week away from The Storyville Mosquito shows in Vancouver (New Westminster) at Massey Theatre! Schedule looks like I'll some free time after the Saturday, November 25th show. So I was thinking of hosting a patron-only IRL Pizza Break dinner after the show if some of you are co...
2023-11-17 04:13:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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If you need a some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 168. Streaming live from my studio 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at 2023-11-13 16:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone!
If you need some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To SEssion 167. Streaming live from the studio in Montreal. 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at 2023-11-06 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
Sorry for the handheld camera vibes here! Just wanted to quickly show you how the animated film is going which is what we've been working on in the studio. Most of my days (when not on tour) this and next year will be focused on finishing the Space Cadet film project!
Currently all the desig...
2023-11-02 04:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
If you need some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 166. Live from the studio from 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at crowd...
2023-10-30 14:05:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
If you need some quiet time music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 165.
Streaming live from the studio 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at crowdcast.io/@kidkoala
*** patreon and crowdcast have ...
2023-10-23 13:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Just got back from the Deltron tour and thought I'd share a few pics and clips from the tour! So a few months ago I got a call from Domino from Hieroglyphics crew and Deltron's tour manager about an offer for us to play a few Deltron shows this year. 2 of the shows would be supporting Wu-Tang Clan an...
2023-10-22 23:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Hope this message finds you all well! Just wanted to let you know that Patreon has just released a chat function on their app. This will be a patron-only chat channel that allows patrons to connect outside of just the comments sections on patreon posts.
I know this may be helpful say in the pa...
2023-10-19 04:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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If you need some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 164. 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above!
You can also replay any previous session at crowdcast.io/@kidkoala
Hey Everyone!
If you need some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 163! 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above!
You can also replay any previous sessions at crowdcast.io/@kidkoala
<... 2023-10-02 13:21:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
Hope this message finds you well. Seeing as it's the 20th anniversary of my second album Some of My Best Friends are DJs, I thought I'd dig out some of the early sketchbooks which would eventually evolve in the final comic book that was included in the packaging.
First, here are the sketchbooks I wou...
2023-10-01 22:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
Hope this message finds you all well! If you need some quiet time/focus music this Monday, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 162! Streaming live from the studio in Montreal from 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at 2023-09-25 02:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to touch base and show you some behind-the-scenes work in progress stuff from the Space Cadet project. Please excuse the skew-y low res photos I took on my phone of the actual screen monitors... That's kind of like the OG version of a screenshot! LOL.
The image above is an early lightin...
2023-09-23 21:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
If you need some quiet time focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 161. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at crowdcast.io/@kidkoala
Bring your sketc...
2023-09-18 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
If you need some quiet time/focus music tonight, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 160. Streaming live from the studio 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at 2023-09-11 17:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
Just wanted to touch base and share a few clips and pics from The Glue Factory studios in San Francisco.
Glue Factory is the name of Dan the Automator's studio in San Francisco. Originally, we were going to rehearse in Oakland at the Hieroglyphics warehouse but we needed more turntables so ins...
2023-09-07 17:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone! PSA!
One of my wonderful patrons here has generously offered a FREE ticket to the Wu-Tang Clan/Deltron 3030 show in Dillon, CO Sept 9th. He wanted to see if anyone here on the patreon crew wants to go to the show. (Unfortunately at this time he can't make it to Colorado for the gig). Let me know in the com...
2023-09-01 19:44:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
Hoping this message finds all of you well! I’m here reorganizing records and figuring out which ones to bring on these next shows.
I’ll be heading to Change Fest in Tupelo, Mississippi tomorrow on Sept 2. Then heading to rehearsals for the Deltron 3030 shows. Denver CO (Sept 8 w/ Wu-Tang Clan an...
2023-09-01 18:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone,
If you need some quiet time focus music today, come join us for Music To Draw To Session 159. Streaming live from the studio! 8pm - 10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at ...
2023-08-28 14:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Wanted to give you a special early bird sneak peek at the forthcoming video for Get Level from Creatures of the Late Afternoon.
My cousin Arte Lew was in Montreal last month and he and Phil Creamer (who is the live video editor on The Storyville Mosquito / and director and camera on this video) went ...
2023-08-26 23:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We are in the workshop today designing visuals of audio. Spoiler alert! There will be space audio in Space Cadet!
I’m trying to make sure the shape of the waveform matches the audio in the score and vice versa. Which comes first? audio or visual? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself for y...
2023-08-25 19:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
If you need some quiet time focus music tonight! Come join us for Music To Draw To session 158! 8pm-10pm EST. You can save your spot at the link above.
You can also replay any previous sessions at crowdcast.io/@kidkoala
Bring yo...
2023-08-21 17:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
Just thought I'd share a little behind the scenes WIP stuff from the forthcoming Space Cadet project.
Here's one of our texture artists Audrey Savany (L) and Art Director Corinne Merrell (R) working on the textures for two of the sets.
So many little details and tiny tonal choic...
2023-08-17 19:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post
